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Guinea-Bissau halts widely condemned RFK Jr.-backed vaccine trial that would have withheld life-saving vaccines from thousands of newborns
A controversial US-funded trial that would have withheld the hepatitis B birth-dose vaccine from newborns in Guinea-Bissau is dead, as ...
‘Disillusioned’: Controversial RFK Jr. ally and MAHA leader Calley Means quits Trump advisory role
Calley Means, one of the Make America Healthy Again movement’s loudest champions inside the Trump administration, has quit his post ...
Health misinformation minefield: Countering online deluge by copying its style
Imagine you’re worried about vaccinating your baby. A message on Facebook tells you: “Protect the community and your kids by ...
Viewpoint: The libertarian case for getting the government out of the business of regulating food choices
Governments worldwide are moving from nudging people toward healthier diets to dictating them, and that's a mistake, as Reason's Jeffrey ...
Science challenges anti-soda activists: No, sodas won’t make you fat
A new study helps clarify the weight-loss impact of diet drinks and dispel a popular myth about artificial sweeteners. As ...
Police raid Guinea-Bissau offices of RFK Jr.-backed vaccine researchers, seize hepatitis B doses
Judicial police in Guinea-Bissau searched the offices of the Bandim Health Project on Monday and seized doses of hepatitis B ...
‘Weird food’? Testicle- and brain-eating, supplement-gulping MAHA health food enthusiasts defend their ‘natural’ diets
Raw buffalo brains, bull testicles and roadkill are on the menu for a growing community of diet contrarians who insist ...
Latest Trump administration proposal to change NIH research grant system draws scientists’ ire
The National Institutes of Health wants to stop telling grant applicants their scores — and scientists aren’t happy about it, ...
Viewpoint: Activists hype ‘dangerous level’ of pesticide residues in Driscoll berries: Separating health concerns from fear-mongering
I had several people ask me if I have second thoughts about my berry consumption in light of a swarm ...
Victims of their own success: As memories of killer diseases fade, vaccine rejectionism soars
Three measles-related deaths have been reported in England in 2026. One child died from an acute infection, another from the ...
Drugs and supplements can extend life and five other longevity myths
Six popular claims about living longer don’t hold up, according to the scientists who study aging, as The New York ...
World Health Organization calls Kennedy- and CDC-backed Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B vaccine study designed to ‘prove’ the danger of vaccines “unethical”
A controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau that would withhold the birth dose from 7,000 newborns got back on ...
Chaos or at peace with the world: The complex ways psychedelics transform the brain
Psychedelics don’t simply scramble the brain. Beneath the apparent chaos, psilocybin seems to organize brain activity around a person’s surroundings, ...
100% raw milk, 100% misguided: As MAHA-fueled demand for unpasteurized milk soars, American Academy of Pediatrics renews call for a ban on its sale and distribution
This story was originally published by ProPublica. The nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a ...
Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science
The board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s research hospital has publicly rebuked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system
Wellness isn’t just green juice and supplements anymore. It has become a worldview. That’s the argument from Ipsos researchers Colin ...
Vaccines, religious freedom, and protecting children’s health: New York Amish appeal to Supreme Court after $118,000 in vaccine fines for blocking shots
New York’s Amish are taking their fight over school vaccine mandates to the US Supreme Court, after the state hit ...
RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply
After pressure from anti-abortion advocates, Republican lawmakers and state officials, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this month that it will ...
Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?
A recent BBC report described women posing as men to get hold of testosterone gel, hoping to improve their menopause ...
‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration
A group of “Make America Healthy Again” activists, including former members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign, says ...
Online gold rush of unapproved peptides is outrunning federal regulators
The online market for unapproved injectable peptides is booming, and the FDA is struggling to keep up, as Forbes contributor ...
Viewpoint: ‘Statistical murder’: Kennedy’s expanding record of “duplicity and mendacity”
Public health disasters do not always begin with a new pathogen. Sometimes they begin with a government official who teaches ...
Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder
Even if polygenic embryo screening worked exactly as advertised, it could still do real social damage. That’s the argument from ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s stacked FDA advisory council endorses multicancer screening test from ethically- questionable company that would increase false positives and waste billions of dollars
Grail’s Galleri multicancer blood test flunked its own big trial, and an FDA advisory panel recommended approving it anyway. That’s ...
Viewpoint: The price Americans pay for science denialism
Science denialism is quietly undoing centuries of hard-won progress against disease, and Americans are already paying for it with their ...
Viewpoint: Are these Trump-conservative GOP doctor-politicians violating their medical oath?
Physicians pledge to “do no harm,” but a cluster of Republican doctors in Washington are championing policies that strip health ...
Vaccine-preventable congenital infections are a leading driver of autism
Kids born with certain congenital infections are approximately three times more likely to be diagnosed as having autism, according to ...
